Opscode Becomes Chef, Fills Warchest for Puppet Battle
The battle between Puppet Labs and Opscode for the future of systems management is heating up. Opscode has received a big infusion of cash from venture capital investors. At ...Full Article
HP Systems Sales Rebound, But Profits Under Pressure
The good news is that Hewlett-Packard is growing its X86 server business faster than the market at large again. The bad news is that a very large hyperscale server ...Full Article
Cisco Converged System Sales Still Booming
Cisco Systems is another in a line of IT giants that are reporting sales that are lower than expected and a consequential impact to the bottom line in its ...Full Article
Rackspace Profits Squeezed by Cloud Competition
Number two has to try harder, and it is not easy being the second-largest public cloud operator behind Amazon Web Services. This is why Rackspace Hosting continues to innovate ...Full Article
Who Is Using OpenStack, And How?
The OpenStack Summit is underway in Hong Kong this week, and the foundation behind the cloud controller project has released the results of a survey that was done to ...Full Article
From Farms to Fraud, SAS CEO Reflects on Analytics Market
There aren’t many tech companies one can rattle off that have a 40-year history of solid revenue growth, but according to Dr. Jim Goodnight, CEO of SAS during a ...Full Article
VMware Defies Competitive Pressures in the Datacenter
The server virtualization gravy train just keeps rolling for VMware. Despite ongoing and large investments in research and development, the company has been able to grow its net income ...Full Article
Xeon Refresh and Engineering Drive Sales at Supermicro
Supermicro makes a living peddling motherboards and system components as well as its own whitebox systems to those who are looking for density and low cost. Like its peers, ...Full Article
Infographic: State of the IT Worker
What is the profile of the standard American IT worker? A new statistical portrait by the Wall Street Journal suggests that the demographics of the IT worker are largely ...Full Article
